F/L/OSS is Central to ICT Innovation

F/L/OSS is Central to ICT Innovation F. LETELLIER fOSSa Free/OSS & Academia Conference Grenoble, 2009

Who am I ?
In the software industry for 20 years
In F/L/OSS since mid-90's
One of the first individual members in ObjectWeb
INRIA 2003-2007, ObjectWeb E.D.
OW2 board member, ELC member, fOSSa SC
Freelance consultant on F/L/OSS strategy

Source: Innovativeness of open source software projects, K. Klincewicz 2005

About 10%-15% F/L/OSS projects are innovative The % is comparable in the proprietary software industry

Patents and the Regress of Usefull Arts, A. W. Torrance & B. Tomlinson, The Columbia Science and Technology Law Review, Volume X, 2009

“Innovation is a driver of economic growth , productivity, job creation and rising living standards . Innovation also promotes ICT competitiveness; in turn, competition leads to better products, improved consumer choice and, ideally, greater ICT uptake .” Source: European Task-Force on ICT Sector competitiveness & ICT uptake, WG on innovation in R&D, manufacturing and services http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/taskforce/wg/wg3_report.pdf

input output
# patents filed
# publications
Licensing
structure
# researchers
# start-ups
R&D expenditure

Source: European Commission, “Towards a European Research Area, Key Figures 2001 – Special edition: Indicators for benchmarking of national research policies”

Hobbyists, part-time contributors
Volunteers or transparent efforts
Anonymous (collective)
Incremental
Free (gratis), Free (open)
F/L/OSS = Software Innovation Dark Matter ?

The finger pointing to the Moon is not the Moon

FLOSS potentially saves the industry 36%+ in software R&D investment that can result in increased profits or be more usefully spent in further innovation Study on the economic impact of OSS on innovation and the competitiveness os the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, UNU-MERIT, NL

TELOSYS AJAX FRAMEWORK TELOCIM Relational Technology Inc. / Ingres Corp. ASK Corp. 2003 2006 <1980 2004 2004 1994 1990 1980

Make firm boundaries more permeable to innovation
Innovation intermediaries
Partnerships between the scientific community and firms

According to a protocol: the license Sell hw/sw complements Sell substitutes Offers services Uses in production process Uses at home/soho Develops with taxpayers money Contributes as a hobby Shares R&D on non core-business Builds on other works Transfers research results Worldwide F/L/OSS Code Base “ publish ” “ subscribe ” Research Lab Company XYZ Public Administration Company XYZ Company XYZ

Geeky talk... F/L/OSS is an innovation “bus” for our Information Society

The existing base of quality FLOSS applications would cost firms about 12 Billion Euros to reproduce internally This code base has been doubling every 18-24 over the past 8 years and this growth is projected to continue for several more years Study on the economic impact of OSS on innovation and the competitiveness os the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector in the EU, 2006, UNU-MERIT, NL

“ The Power of Collaborative Innovation is the answer to all the big global challenges we are facing” Tony Blair World Economic Forum Davos, January 2008

A Few OW Java Projects Tribe (group comm.) Fractal (component mod) Sync4j (mobile sync.) SpagoBI (business intelligence) eXo Platform (portal & CMS) Bonita, Shark (workflow) XWiki (wiki, blogs) JOnAS / PKUAS (J2EE appserv) Celtix / Petals (ESB, JBI) JAC (AOP) Speedo (JDO persist.) C-JDBC (RDBMS clust.) ProActive (Grid) XQuare (XML rewriting) OPS (XML / AJAX) ASM (codebyte man.) Eclipse Web TP Eclipse SOA TP Octopus (ETL) EasyBeans (EJB Container) Telosys (AJAX) JOTM / ISTx (transactions) JORAM (JMS, MOM) XService (SOA / WS) Enhydra (Java / XML APS) Orchestra (BPM / Orchestrat.) Lomboz J2EE dev.

A Business Ecosystem Platform The OW2 Value Proposal
Technical Services
Forge
Mailing lists, Wiki, etc.
Community Services
Governance framework
Activities
Marketing Services
Projects promotion
Brand and awareness
Producers Users Use / Integrate Feed-back Re-use Contribute Academia Individuals Companies Government Systems Integrators Software Vendors

« Open source projects involve norms of proprietariness that create conditions for innovation - they are institutions that facilitate innovation, just as the guilds were » Source: « From Medieval Guilds to Open Source Software: Informal Norms, Appropriability Institutions, and Innovation, » Pr. Robert P. Merges, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Nov 13, 2004

Individuals Associations of Individuals Associations of Companies

“ There's no business model for F/L/OSS!”

Buy Get F/L/OSS Substitute Complement Superset Build Sell Bespoke development Hardware Subscription Proprietary Outsourcing Use Migrate Legacy Freeware Externally funded venture Contribute Lead Patronize In-house Refactoring Customize Integration Mutualize Dual license Service Open Core Software publishing SaaS Embedded VAR

By 2012... 80% of all commercial software will include OSS elements Source: Gartner Key Predictions for IT Organisations and Users in 2008 and Beyond, January 2008

2010 Mainstream IT shops will consider open source for 80% of their infrastructure software needs Mainstream IT shops will consider open source for 25% of their business software needs Source: Mark Driver, Gartner Research VP, The Gartner Application Development Summit, Sept 2005

Innovation &Technology from Academia & Gov’t Share R&D Efforts
Faster technology transfer
Gather real world needs
Complement of activity in standardization bodies
Place of Research in the Innovation Ecosystem
Trust and professionalism
Virtuous cycle between fundamental research and industrial applications
Global outreach
EC & France Funded R&D Projects
RNRT Corsica, ITEA Pepita, RNRT Parol, RNTL Impact, ITEA Osmose, IST Mocca, Asia ITC COSGov, ITEA S4All
ActiveXML Carol C-JDBC CLIF JORAM Fractal Rubis ProActive …

F/L/OSS & Academia Promote FLOSS code production & community growth as performance metrics in your lab Participate in public funded projects with FLOSS dissemination strategies Set up partnerships with FLOSS savvy industrial players

The history of F/OSS can be traced back to academic origins: distributing source code under a permissive license was the de facto rule in academia in the 70's. Since then, F/OSS became a wide spread paradigm throughout the software industry, and its alignment with academic goals tended to be forgotten. According to fOSSa steering committee members, software innovation is a value creation process that needs a new joint collaboration of industries, academia and F/OSS experts.

Take aways...
Innovation happens in and on F/L/OSS
F/L/OSS communities are innovation intermediaries
Companies fund and leverage F/L/OSS based innovations
F/L/OSS brings new degrees of liberty in public and private funding for ICT R&D

Thank you for your attention! FLOSS Strategy - www.flet.fr OW2 - www.ow2.org Green IT - www.greenit.fr And make sure to enjoy sunny Grenoble!

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